3.8 Conclusion
This study provides an overview of AMR research in wildlife on worldwide scale, reporting valuable information related to annual publication numbers, categories, institutions, countries, and researchers. Important features and trends in science and performance during the period for 1979 to 2019 have been unearthed. All of the analyzed bibliometric variables in this study revealed solid growth within this research field, both in terms of increasing scientific production and research collaboration. Increasingly, more researchers, institutions and countries got involved in AMR research in wildlife over this period. However,  research output was distributed unevenly over all countries, with the industrialized countries being more productive and owing more collaborations among them and with other countries with lower funding availability and research tradition in this area. While most research was focused on the Microbiology and the Veterinary Sciences subject categories in the initial publications, during the analyzed period this topic became more multidisciplinary likely due to the recognized of the “One Health” framework in AMR. Our findings show the value of bibliometric methods to illustrate global research trends of AMR research in wildlife. Thus, this study provides a helpful reference for academics, veterinarians and policy decision makers. As research in AMR focused on wildlife is still in its infancy, our findings provide a ‘snapshot’ of this field at an early stage of its development. But the study of AMR in wildlife, only makes sense in the light of landscape ecology. Therefore, future studies must overlap infectious disease ecology, landscape ecology, and microbiology, to infer emergence, transmission and identify environmental drivers of AMR spread across space and between species. Such approach will significantly contribute to disclose the dynamics of AMR in the wildlife interface by identifying populations at risk, mapping high-risk areas and, consequently, by directing surveillance programs and designing proactive management actions.